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What’s Causing the Smoky Haze Over Sydney and Northern NSW?

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Millions of NSW residents have woken up to the smell of smoke and ‘poor’ air quality after firefighters spent the night tackling two bushfires.
The NSW Rural Fire Service said smoke from bushfires has drifted across to the Hunter Valley, Newcastle, the Central Coast and Sydney overnight.
The fires are burning near Medowie in Port Stephens and Nerong on the NSW Mid Coast.
Thousands of NSW residents have woken up to the smell of smoke.
Thousands of NSW residents have woken up to the smell of smoke. (NSW Rural Fire Service)

The NSW Rural Fire Service has announced that the smoke should start dissipating gradually throughout the morning. “Please only contact emergency services via Triple Zero (000) if you spot an unattended fire,” they advised.

The fire, which currently spans 432 hectares, is under control.

The fire in Port Stephens is burning between Medowie and Oyster Cove, about 25 kilometres northeast of Newcastle.

Yesterday, firefighting teams focused on reinforcing containment lines on the northwestern front of the fire, situated east of Moffats Swamp Nature Reserve.

Locals in the vicinity are advised to keep an eye on the situation and stay informed, as conditions may change.

Residents in the area should still monitor the conditions and stay up to date in case the situation changes.

The fire at Nerong is currently 916 hectares in size and is not under control yet.

The NSW government’s air quality monitoring service ranked the air quality in the east of Sydney, Central Coast and Lake Macquarie regions as ‘poor’.

Meanwhile air quality is ‘fair’ in the central west Sydney, south-west Sydney, Illawarra, Lower Hunter, Upper Hunter and Riverina-Murray regions.

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